Hay-loader.



, its mner side a sprocket 4. The front axle 1 FCE.

LE ROY HowE,` 0F WAUPUN, WISCONSIN.

HAY-LOADER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed November 25, 1907.

935,986. Patented Oct. 5, i303.

Serial No. 403,837.

end of the tongue 11, after the latter' is inserted 1n the coupling member. other arm of the lever 1s fixed one end of a vBe 1t known that I, LE Rox Hown, a citi- To all/whom it may concern: zen of the United States, residing'at Vaut pun, in the county'of Fond du Lac and State cord 20, which is guided by sheaves 21, 22, ofWisconsin, have invented a new and use- 23 and has its other end attached to a hand ful Hay-Loader, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hay loading dei vices of the kind that are mounted on wheels, are attachable to the rear end of hay racks and rake up and deliver the hay into the rack. And the object is to provide an illnproved'and convenient hay loader .of said c ass. Y

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved hay loader attached to the rear portion of a hay rack. Fig.` 2 is'av top View of the loader. Fig. 3 is a sectional front elevation on the line c-c in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is ahorizontal sectional top view on line d-tl in Fig. 1, with many parts omitted. Fig. 5 is a partly lever 24; which y of the carrier frame 25, so that a workman standing on the top of the hay load may take hold of the lever and uncouple the rack whenever the rack is full, or there is no more hay to be loaded.

he hay is raked'up from the ground and carried upward and deposited into the rack by the following means. Upon the rear axle l are placed between collars 26, theloops 27 ing each a second loo inserted a bar 30. aid bar 1s secured in the two arms 31 of a lever 32, which is i1npelled downward by a weight 33, which, as the arms 3l are journaled on the shaft 1, causes the bar to impel all the teeth sectional elevation on the line a-a in Fig. 2. downward as close to the ground as desired Fig. 6 is a transverse section on the line and as regulated by two arms 34, which are 6-Z1 in Fig. 2 with the shaft 46 made in two -xed on the axle and normally support the parts as a modification. Fig. 7 is a detail lbar 30., On the axle l are also mounted view of one of the teeth raking up the hay. three downwardly extending arms 35, 35n eferring to the drawing by reference nu- 35", in the outer two of which are journaled merals, l designates the rear axle and 2 the the outer ends of ,two axially arranged front axle of the loader. The rear axle is shafts 36 and 36X, whose inner ends are joursupported by two traction wheels 3,]'ournaled naled in the bearing `35. Said two shafts on the shaft and having each secured upon also journaled in the lower end of the 29, through which is 1s supported by smaller wheels 5, which preferably have a narrower' 'gage than the hind wheels. z

As best shown in Fig. 4, upon the front axle is mounted a fifth-Wheel 6,- to whose is secur d to and supports the front end of a` reacl Y7,having its rear end formed with two arnts 8, which are axle 1. To the front ets 39, and 36X are fixed two sprockets 40 or 40X. Moved vby said lower shafts and sprockets are two endless carriers 42 and 42X stretched parallel to and near each other over said upper and lower sprockets, and having cleats 43 to engage the hay. Said carrier frame is axle 2, or a bolster 9 fixed thereon 1s secui ed supported with its front end upon the reach by bracing arms l0 a tongue 11, to Whose by a prop 44 (best. shown in Fig. and lfront end is pivoted at l2 a depending prop t 1e carrier frame has a light cover 45 to pre- 13), which is normally hanging about eight vent the wind from blowing the hayvaway from the carrie`r`s. the lower end of the carrier frame 1s secured 1n 1ta transverse shaft 46, whose ends are inches from the ground, but when the tongue is uncoupled from the hay rack and allowed to sink some, the' pro su ports -it so it does not fall to the roun III) pon the front end ofthe tongue 1s pivoted at 14 a bell-crank lever 15, from th in F 1g. 6, consists of a sprocket 48 retained 'in place by a pin 49 in the (stud, and having at one side clutch teeth 50 adapted to be engaged by similar ront teeth 51, of a. sprocket 52, which in .its hub is e long arm of which issuspended by a short-chain 16 a coulling pin 1.7, adapted for insertion downwar y into a coupling member 18, fixed on the rear fpart of the hay rack 19, and in a hole. in the (see'Fig. 7) of a. series of rake teeth 2S, hav- A short distance from simultaneously, and a hand lever for ing said rod.

3. In a hay loader of the kind described, the combination with the rear axle l, of a series of Collars thereon, rake teeth inserted between the collars and having each an eye encircling the axle, and a second eye upon its body, a bar loosely inserted Yin all of l@aid second eyes, a weighted lever pivoted on the axle and secured to the bar so as to hold it and the teeth yieldingly down vard when the lever is inclined upwardly and rearwardly, and to hold them elevated from the ground operati l i l i I har at the desired elevation when the ined forwardly and for supporting' yald 15 rake,

teeth are in operative position on the ground:

said lever heiner so disposed that il rests against some part of the inaeliine when in iilorward ly and upwardl)v inelined position. 2o

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